Associations of leisure-time physical activity and television viewing with life expectancy cancer-free at age 50: The ARIC study

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Background: Physical activity has been associated with longer chronic disease-free life expectancy, but specific cancer types have not been investigated. We examined whether leisure-time moderate- to-vigorous physical activity (LTPA) and television (TV) viewing were associated with life expectancy cancer-free. Methods: We included 14,508 participants without a cancer history from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. We used multistate survival models to separately examine associations of LTPA (no LTPA,

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Cuthbertson, C. C., Nichols, H. B., Tan, X., Kucharska-Newton, A., Heiss, G., Joshu, C. E., … Evenson, K. R. (2020). Associations of leisure-time physical activity and television viewing with life expectancy cancer-free at age 50: The ARIC study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 29(12), 2617–2625. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0870

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